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Language models can be equipped with multimodal capabilities by fine-tuning on embeddings of visual inputs. But how do such multimodal models represent images in their hidden activations? We explore representations of image concepts within…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Achyuta Rajaram , Sarah Schwettmann , Jacob Andreas , Arthur Conmy

Humans possess the remarkable skill of Visual Perception, the ability to see and understand the seen, helping them make sense of the visual world and, in turn, reason. Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLM) have recently achieved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Jitesh Jain , Jianwei Yang , Humphrey Shi

Recently, deep learning based image deblurring has been well developed. However, exploiting the detailed image features in a deep learning framework always requires a mass of parameters, which inevitably makes the network suffer from high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Yanni Zhang , Yiming Liu , Qiang Li , Miao Qi , Dahong Xu , Jun Kong , Jianzhong Wang

Recent neural-network-based architectures for image segmentation make extensive usage of feature forwarding mechanisms to integrate information from multiple scales. Although yielding good results, even deeper architectures and alternative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-06 Fausto Milletari , Nicola Rieke , Maximilian Baust , Marco Esposito , Nassir Navab

With the remarkable success of large language models (LLMs) in natural language understanding and generation, multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have rapidly advanced in their ability to process data across multiple modalities. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Jingrui Zhang , Feng Liang , Yong Zhang , Wei Wang , Runhao Zeng , Xiping Hu

Generative large language models (LLMs) exhibit impressive capabilities, which can be further augmented by integrating a pre-trained vision model into the original LLM to create a multimodal LLM (MLLM). However, this integration often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Shikhar Srivastava , Md Yousuf Harun , Robik Shrestha , Christopher Kanan

We present MMCORE, a unified framework designed for multimodal image generation and editing. MMCORE leverages a pre-trained Vision-Language Model (VLM) to predict semantic visual embeddings via learnable query tokens, which subsequently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Zijie Li , Yichun Shi , Jingxiang Sun , Ye Wang , Yixuan Huang , Zhiyao Guo , Xiaochen Lian , Peihao Zhu , Yu Tian , Zhonghua Zhai , Peng Wang

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) excel in vision-language tasks such as image captioning but remain prone to object hallucinations, where they describe objects that do not appear in the image. To mitigate this, we propose LISA, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Zhihui Guo , Xin Man , Hui Xu , Jie Shao , Zhiguo Jiang , Xianchao Zhang , Heng Tao Shen

Large Language Models (LLMs) have allowed recent LLM-based approaches to achieve excellent performance on long-video understanding benchmarks. We investigate how extensive world knowledge and strong reasoning skills of underlying LLMs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Kanchana Ranasinghe , Xiang Li , Kumara Kahatapitiya , Michael S. Ryoo

We introduce FLARE, a family of vision language models (VLMs) with a fully vision-language alignment and integration paradigm. Unlike existing approaches that rely on single MLP projectors for modality alignment and defer cross-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Zheng Liu , Mengjie Liu , Jingzhou Chen , Jingwei Xu , Bin Cui , Conghui He , Wentao Zhang

Deep learning and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have driven major transformations in diverse research areas. However, their limitations in handling low-frequency information present obstacles in certain tasks like interpreting global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Fuzhi Wu , Jiasong Wu , Youyong Kong , Chunfeng Yang , Guanyu Yang , Huazhong Shu , Guy Carrault , Lotfi Senhadji

Building state-of-the-art Vision-Language Models (VLMs) with strong captioning capabilities typically necessitates training on billions of high-quality image-text pairs, requiring millions of GPU hours. This paper introduces the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Tiezheng Zhang , Yitong Li , Yu-cheng Chou , Jieneng Chen , Alan Yuille , Chen Wei , Junfei Xiao

Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) has recently garnered attention as a prominent research focus. By harnessing powerful LLM, it facilitates a transition of conversational generative AI from unimodal text to performing multimodal tasks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Xuechen Guo , Wenhao Chai , Shi-Yan Li , Gaoang Wang

In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, multi-modal large language models are emerging as a significant area of interest. These models, which combine various forms of data input, are becoming increasingly popular.…

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have propelled the field of few-shot action recognition (FSAR). However, preliminary explorations in this area primarily focus on generating captions to form a suboptimal feature->caption->feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Jiazheng Xing , Chao Xu , Hangjie Yuan , Mengmeng Wang , Jun Dan , Hangwei Qian , Yong Liu

Fine-grained visual classification (FGVC) aims to classify sub-classes of objects in the same super-class (e.g., species of birds, models of cars). For the FGVC tasks, the essential solution is to find discriminative subtle information of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Chenyu Guo , Jiyang Xie , Kongming Liang , Xian Sun , Zhanyu Ma

The core for tackling the fine-grained visual categorization (FGVC) is to learn subtle yet discriminative features. Most previous works achieve this by explicitly selecting the discriminative parts or integrating the attention mechanism via…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Jun Wang , Xiaohan Yu , Yongsheng Gao

Object hallucination in Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) significantly impedes their real-world applicability. As the primary component for accurately interpreting visual information, the choice of visual encoder is pivotal. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Weihang Wang , Xinhao Li , Ziyue Wang , Yan Pang , Jielei Zhang , Peiyi Li , Qiang Zhang , Longwen Gao

Visual encoding constitutes the basis of large multimodal models (LMMs) in understanding the visual world. Conventional LMMs process images in fixed sizes and limited resolutions, while recent explorations in this direction are limited in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Ruyi Xu , Yuan Yao , Zonghao Guo , Junbo Cui , Zanlin Ni , Chunjiang Ge , Tat-Seng Chua , Zhiyuan Liu , Maosong Sun , Gao Huang

Reference Expression Segmentation (RES) aims to segment image regions specified by referring expressions and has become popular with the rise of multimodal large models (MLLMs). While MLLMs excel in semantic understanding, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Jingchao Wang , Zhijian Wu , Dingjiang Huang , Yefeng Zheng , Hong Wang